American politics got you down? Let’s turn our attention for a moment, shall we, to fluffier, happier subjects: Prince Harry has a girlfriend, American actress and philanthropist Meghan Markle, and according to reports, they’re in the throes of a whirlwind romance. Who is this woman who has captured the roguish, playboy prince’s heart, conjuring all sorts of fever dreams about a second royal wedding? For starters, she’s a lot more than just Prince Harry’s girlfriend.

1. She’s one of the stars of Suits, the sexy law firm drama on USA, playing Rachel Zane, a paralegal and Columbia Law School student involved in an on-again, off-again romance with one of the firm’s lawyers, played by (the very cute) Patrick Adams. Before becoming a series regular, she had small parts in the films Get Him to the Greek and Horrible Bosses.

2. She is both an actress and an activist. Markle, 35, is a UN Women advocate and an ambassador for World Vision, through which she traveled to Rwanda for its clean water campaign. She’s also served as an ambassador for One Young World, speaking out about gender equality and modern slavery. Markle traveled to Afghanistan with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on a USO tour in December 2014. Here’s a quote that will make you love her: “I’ve never wanted to be a lady who lunches. I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works.”

Markle has thoughtfully written about balancing Hollywood and her humanitarian work. “I’m consistently asked how I keep a foot in two contrasting worlds—one in the entertainment industry, predicated on wealth and indulgence, and the other in humanitarian work. To me, it’s less of a question of how can you do this, and more a question of how can you not?” Markle wrote. “While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.”

And, for Markle, they have for a long time: Her mom is a “free-spirited clinical therapist,” she says, and her father, a TV lighting director. According to her Wikipedia page, the latter meant she spent time as a child hanging out on the set of Married With Children.

3. In the grand Goop tradition, Markle has a dreamy lifestyle website called The Tig, at which she writes about her philanthropic work, and shares style tips and recipes (“Grandma Markle’s Apple Butter Toast” looks pretty divine). She’s so crafty, she worked as a calligrapher while coming up in Hollywood, even reportedly doing Robin Thicke and Paula Patton’s wedding invites. And her Instagram is lovely, including a mix of charcuterie platters, inspirational quotes (“throw kindness around like confetti”) and shots of her looking like a goddess in a leather pencil skirt. Commendable work-life balance.

4. She’s been married before. Markle married her longtime boyfriend, Trevor Engelson, a producer and agent, in 2011; they divorced in 2013.

5. It took Markle, who is biracial (her mother is African-American and her father is Dutch-Irish), “a long time to find myself,” she told Ebony. “My mom is . . . 100 percent black with dreadlocks. And when people find out ‘that girl’ on Suits is her daughter, there is often this disconnect and sometimes disbelief . . . It’s that dichotomy that we can go through: ‘What are you? Where do you fit in?’ . . . it took me deep into my 20s to come to the realization that I am ‘enough’ exactly as I am, and I don’t have to be more or less of anything for other people.” And, with that, we, too, are officially in love with Markle.